====== Bioinformatics Journal Club: (Computer) Science and society (2S) ======
| [[https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/kvv_publ/publ/vd?id=423652495|392172]] | Dias Vieira Braga, Stoye | Winter 2023/24 | Monday 10:15-11:45 in U10-155 |

==== Short Description ====
This time our Journal Club will in fact be a "Research café" with the title "(Computer) Science and society".

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This course will happen as a round table, always underlined by ethical discussions, and has a mixture of three main topics:

> education

> biology

> technology

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In biology, for example, we thought of starting by revisiting some elementary questions such as:

> Is the organism a mechanism (machine)?

> Is the organism controlled by its parts?

> What is the whole of life in an organism?

> Are thoughts a product of the brain?

And...

> Are we allowed to ask ourselves and answer these questions?

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In general we thought of having an open space, in which everyone will have a chance to express opinions and listen. The goal is more to enlarge our scientific views and critical senses, but we may also find new answers and pathways to follow.

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Some literature (books) for inspiration:

> The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (David Graeber and David Wengrow, 2021)


> Against method (Paul Feyerabend, 1975)


> Farewell to Reason (Paul Feyerabend, 1987)


> Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life (Robert Rosen, 1991)


> The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962)


> The Falling Sky - Words of a Yanomami Shaman (Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, 2013, originally published in French in 2010)


> Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (Ailton Krenak, 2019)



==== Schedule ====
^ **Date** ^ **Topic** ^
| 09.10.2023 | Organization of the class | 
| 16.10.2023 | Farewell to Reason (Introduction)\\ Autobiographical Reminiscences of Robert Rosen |
| 23.10.2023 | Merchandise Love (The Falling Sky - Words of a Yanomami Shaman)\\ The humanity we think we are (Ideas to Postpone the End of the World) | 
| 30.10.2023 | Connecting the ideas suggested so far |
| 06.11.2023 | Metamagical Themas (1st column) by Douglas Hofstadter |
| 13.11.2023 | Praeludium of Life Itself by Robert Rosen |
| 20.11.2023 | ----- No meeting ----- |
| 27.11.2023 | The Church-Pythagoras Thesis by Robert Rosen |
| 04.12.2023 | The Church-Pythagoras Thesis by Robert Rosen |
| 11.12.2023 | On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem by Alan Turing |
| 18.12.2023 | On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem by Alan Turing |
| Winter break ||
| 08.01.2024 | An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory by Alonzo Church |
| 15.01.2024 | An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory by Alonzo Church |
| 22.01.2024 | What is Biology by Robert Rosen |
| 29.01.2024 | Chapter I (Prolegomena) of Life Itself by Robert Rosen |